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FBI uses drones inside U.S. for spying, director says
WASHINGTON — FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III testified Wednesday that the controversial National Security Agency surveillance program "has been a contributing factor, one dot among many dots" for tracking terrorist plots, and he admitted for...
Tags: U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Police Investigations, Bank Robbery, Jeff Sessions, White House
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Effort to protect California egg law in House farm bill fails
WASHINGTON—Congress to California: Here’s bit of egg on your face. A bipartisan group of lawmakers failed to kill a provision in the farm bill that blocks California from requiring that eggs imported into the state come from hens who have...Tags: Steve King, Debbie Stabenow, Parties and Movements, Lobbying, Jeff Denham
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FBI tells Congress it uses drones in US
McClatchy Washington BureauWASHINGTON FBI Director Robert Mueller acknowledged Wednesday that the bureau has used unmanned aerial drones for surveillance in the United States and suggested that government needs to develop guidelines as their use grows. Testifying before the Senate...Tags: Civil Rights, Photography and Video, American Civil Liberties Union, Services and Shopping, National Government
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NSA chief: Surveillance stopped 50 terrorist 'events'
McClatchy Washington BureauWASHINGTON The director of the National Security Agency testified Tuesday that the government's massive surveillance program helped thwart more than 50 terrorist "events" worldwide since Sept. 11, 2001, including a planned bombing of the New York Stock...Tags: Bernard Sanders, Lawyers, Civil Rights, Al-Qaeda, U.S. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
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Yosemite's historic 'Buffalo Soldiers' up for national recognition
WASHINGTON -- In the late 19th century and early 20th century, black troopers called the "Buffalo Soldiers" patrolled Yosemite and Sequoia national parks in California. But many visitors to the national parks are unaware of the role played by these...
Tags: Yosemite National Park, Human Interest, National Parks, Barbara Boxer
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Obama: NSA secret data gathering 'transparent'
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama defended top secret National Security Agency spying programs as legal in a lengthy interview Monday, and called them transparent — even though they are authorized in secret. "It is transparent," Obama...
Tags: Civil Rights, Jarmes R. Clapper, Central Intelligence Agency, Metropolitan Transportation Authority, National Security
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Head-in-the-sand Congress likes it that way
Los Angeles Times (MCT)Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., a former chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, is hopping mad. Sensenbrenner considers himself the father of the Patriot Act, the 2001 law that gave the federal government new powers to investigate potential...Tags: U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary, Lawyers, Jane Harman, Central Intelligence Agency, Mark Udall
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Edward Snowden's not the first to make claims about NSA
WASHINGTON — Mathematician William Binney worked for the National Security Agency for four decades, and in the late 1990s he helped design a system to sort through the digital data the agency was sucking up in the exploding universe of bits and...
Tags: Lawyers, Jarmes R. Clapper, PRISM (surveillance program), U.S. Department of Defense, Planned Parenthood
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As public concerns grow, Congress spooked over spying
McClatchy Washington BureauWASHINGTON The American people are growing increasingly concerned about reports of domestic spying. And Congress isn't sure how to respond. The public's views have been evolving over the past week and a half. When news broke earlier this month that the...Tags: U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary, Lindsey O. Graham, U.S. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Elections, U.S. House of Representatives
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Feinstein will seek limits on who can see NSA spy data
McClatchy Washington BureauWASHINGTON The Senate intelligence committee chairman on Thursday vowed an effort to limit the access of government contract workers, such as Edward Snowden, to highly classified information. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., made the promise after...Tags: U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary, Lawyers, ABC (tv network), Al-Qaeda, U.S. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
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California high-speed rail gets a green light
McClatchy Washington BureauWASHINGTON California's high-speed rail project can start rolling without waiting for potentially time-consuming approvals from a federal board, officials ruled Thursday. In a victory for the project, which has faced repeated political obstacles, a...Tags: Travel, Lawyers, Local Government, Lobbying, Railway Transportation
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Liberties we cherish seem to be on the line
The revelation that the federal government has spied on millions of supposedly private phone and Internet communications makes President Barack Obama's headache over the IRS targeting of conservative groups seeking tax exemptions seem a passing migraine....Tags: George W. Bush, Jarmes R. Clapper, News Media, The Washington Post, U.S. Congress
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